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I must report that Owen Paterson, Environment Secretary, is a bit of a
naysayer. Or, as the subject yesterday was horsemeat, make that a
neigh-sayer.

“You’ve got a nerve!” he shouted in his stentorian way at Labour. “You
wouldn’t think that this is their system that we’ve inherited!”

Well, he has a nerve, too. Nothing was his fault. The food safety system was
invented by Labour. Food regulation was the responsibility of Europe. The
testing was done in Ireland. The abattoirs were in Romania. And the lasagne,
well, I think we all know that lasagne is very much (whisper it)